Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. Dependencies are the number one killer of Agility. .

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Leading Agile

JUNE 9, 2020

Agile is a new business paradigm, but few established companies understand what needs to change to make their business Agile. Companies that master the balance between these characteristics are more successful at transforming into Agile organizations. Governance. Most think it is about speed and flexibility. Organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Are you aiming to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Professional ( PMI-ACP )®? Below, I list the best agile books for your certification studies. These are guides that support your learning but also help you go deeper into the world of agile. If you’re looking for those, check out my list of the best agile study guides.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 19, 2017

Product reviewed: PRINCE2® Agile Bundle (includes exam fee, self-paced online training, support and mock exam). Other products offered by this training company: PRINCE2®, PMP Exam Prep, other online PM courses including How to Estimate, Recovery of Troubled Projects, Project Governance. Training Company: Logical Model.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile?

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When we think of an agile transformation, improving portfolio management might not be high on the organization’s list of priorities. This makes it impossible to accurately estimate capacity during iteration planning and usually contributes to a team missing their iteration commitments resulting in delivery delays.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

A rolling wave plan starts with knowing the major milestones or governance points. These could be anchored by project phases, major deliverables, key governance review points or simply that you have chosen to plan in three-month increments. How to create a rolling wave plan. Finally, include the long-range tasks.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile.

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Leading Agile

JULY 13, 2021

So if we agree that Agile Transformation is worth talking about, we need a better way of talking about it. You see, over the past 20 years, the general hypothesis has been to train people on Agile methodologies and trust everything else will emerge. Teams will magically form.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Project management is a growing industry and one that offers great opportunities for people of all skills and experience. Here’s what you can do to get a foothold in this exciting industry.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Iterating the Budget in an Agile Environment. In terms of agile , if you are managing your budget in real-time, on a week-to-week basis, it doesn’t matter how often things change, you should be able to deal with a changing landscape financially. There is a monthly cycle where people submit their monthly forecasts.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile Manifesto The fundamental document that outlines the values and principles of Agile project management. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. Tools are available for each of these.

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Agilemania

MARCH 3, 2022

Agile is a word that was added to the corporate dictionary two decades ago and is still relevant today. The Agile adoption rate increase from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021 has left the business world stunned. Amidst all the chaos, there is one designation that helps organizations realize their dream of Agile transformations. .

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Leading Agile

JULY 26, 2023

The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, agile methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. Is the Agile industry in a rut? Is the Agile industry in a rut? Everyone knows Agile works. It didn’t work.”

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Agile teams are largely self-governing.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Australian government has granted two initiatives close to Brisbane major project status. Over A$10bn has been committed by the Australian government to fund the upgrades. The majority of the work is government based and there is an exciting start up scene,” she adds. Source: PMI; figures relate to country).

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile?

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

Traditional approaches, which are typically more lengthy and linear in fashion, may inhibit the flow of innovation and value through your organization, and as such, making it challenging to undergo a Lean-Agile transformation without transforming your organization’s approach to portfolio management. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Carsten is an Agile Coach at the LEGO Group and the founder of Agile Ideas. You might also know Carsten from his YouTube channel , in which he shared hands-on tips & tricks about Agile, coaching, and facilitation. What does Agile at the LEGO Group look like? so, there’s also no big Agile transformation plan.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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MPUG

APRIL 18, 2024

Adaptive Project Management Multiple strands of adaptive (or Agile ) thinking have converged on an alternative approach to controlling scope. We need to evaluate the costs, risks, and other implications of the change, and compare them to the marginal benefit of committing to the change. This makes use of the concept of a ‘ backlog ’.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. People are starting to draw the conclusion that “Agile doesn’t work.” While this kind of “Agile laboratory” environment stems from good intentions (we certainly don’t want to set a team up for failure), it is not very useful from a hypothesis testing standpoint. What happened?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Customer value or the desired outcomes are established at the start of projects.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat. Agile is a participant in Risk Management, but Agile is NOT Risk Management. .

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

There is a posted question at an agile conference. Can you make a decision without an estimate? Like many discussions in the domain of agile, the statement is made without any evidence that it is true, nor can even be true in principle. Don't assume, Estimate. This type of fallacy is common. . First a principle.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

When implementing Lean-Agile practices at scale, organizations quickly realize that their push for agility conflicts with traditional budgeting and cost accounting practices. It’s not possible to truly achieve organizational agility without evolving these practices. Estimates and Why They’re Unproductive.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 7, 2021

resource management is broken down into the key components resource management planning, resource estimation, resource acquisition, team development and team management. Furthermore, for every knowledge area special attention is given to adaptive/agile environments. For each component you get best practices to look for or to implement.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Agile development and product development are aligned with business strategy through LPM, driving value to customers with products and solutions. Business agility can be improved by combining LPM and agile development practices. The leadership team facilitates periodic reviews to achieve enterprise agility: 1.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The principles reflect the full value delivery range of approaches from predictive (waterfall) to adaptive (such as Agile). This section presents information on Data Gathering and Analysis Methods, Estimating Methods. In the Sixth Edition of the PMBOK ® Guide, content on tailoring was addressed at the front of each Knowledge Area.

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